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Support Guidelines.com offers a vehicle for researching child support laws nationwide. Its highlight is access to the full text of the child-support guidelines for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It includes links to other Web resources for family law research, as well as to child support calculators available online. The site…

One of the best sources of legal ethics information on the Web is the American Legal Ethics Library, from Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute. This digital library contains the full text of or links to the professional-conduct codes of most U.S. states, as well as the ABA’s model code. In addition, major…

Crain’s Cleveland Business reports that auto insurer Progressive Corp. is issuing the first insurance policy for owners of Segway motorized scooters.

Progressive said owners of the Segway Human Transporter have a choice of three insurance packages: full coverage; liability only; or liability and comprehensive.…

“If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.” So says an old Irish saying that serves as the motto of Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock. Its purpose, plain and simple: to track the Microsoft chairman’s wealth at any given moment as well as…

When I first visited LawPeriscope, a site that profiles the nation’s 300 largest firms using the firms’ own Web sites, I was not impressed. Heck, I thought, anyone could pull together a bunch of links to someone else’s site. Then one day I found myself at one of those large firm sites, trying to…

University of North Carolina law professor Eric L. Muller launched a blawg last month, called IsThatLegal?. Muller is author of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II.…

As I noted earlier, ADR Cyberweek begins today. They have announced an intriguing slate of special events, including a mediation conducted live online and discussions about the state of online dispute resolution.…

Lawyers in Maryland, New York and Texas each recently launched Web sites that share one trait in common – they focus on specific areas of law.

— LoanLawyer.com is the site of Gaithersburg, Md., solo Jeffrey P. Marston. It focuses on mortgage banking and real estate finance, and includes a periodic newsletter on mortgage…

Way back in 1995, Dennis Kennedy started a Web site called EstatePlanningLinks.com. On that site in 1997, he put a link to an article I wrote surveying estate planning resources on the Internet. Dennis no longer has anything to do with the estate planning site he founded, having moved on to bigger and…

What? Haven’t had enough of law school? LLM-Guide.com claims to be the most comprehensive directory on the Internet of master of laws programs, listing more than 370 postgraduate law programs in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia/New Zealand. The guide is published by Benjamin & Johannes Kroymann, Berlin, Germany.…

In 1819, a woman slave named Winny filed a lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court that would establish an important judicial precedent. Winny sought freedom for herself and her children, charging one Phebe Whitesides with trespass, assault and battery and false imprisonment. On Feb. 13, 1822, a jury agreed and the court declared Winny and…

While the Web is useful to lawyers for legal research, it is even more so for non-legal research — for finding the facts a lawyer can use to back up the legal argument. One of the best sources on the Internet for pure facts is the U.S. Census Bureau, which recently added two reports…